[jjsheridan5]

The thing that troubles me on this thread is Freepers calling Honor, God, Country 'cheesy'.

Well for me if Honor, God, Country is 'cheesy' then I think this country isn't eating enough cheese!

Now I am sure I went and hurt someone's feelings on the thread, but guess what the old saw is true 'Sometimes the truth hurts'!

But the truth is, and sorry if this hurts, the show itself is very "cheesy". To say this, does not mean that there is anything less than noble about "Honor, God, Country". It simply means that the show is contrived, poorly executed, trite, predictable, and lacking any real tension. It is, for lack of a better phrase, "very cheesy".

One's belief in the values portrayed in the show need not be so tenuous that it requires one to disable any sense of quality. Personally, while I agree wholeheartedly that the country is in dire need of these values, I think these values, by their very nature, prevail over time (although not necessarily on a timescale we approve of), and we don't need to pretend that a bad show is actually "good" in order to help those values take root.

It is great to see the US Navy portrayed positively, and for the show to serve as homage to the values that used to be commonplace, it doesn't negate the fact that the show itself, is an awful pile of dreck.

[Kartographer]

Hub McCann: "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in." Secondhand Lions (2003)